CVE-2026-72047

ieee802154: ca8210: fix pointer truncation in kfifo on 64-bit

N/A
Published: August 15, 2026 at 05:52 AM UTC
Updated: August 17, 2026 at 06:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: ca8210: fix pointer truncation in kfifo on 64-bit ca8210_test_int_driver_write() and ca8210_test_int_user_read() exchange a kmalloc'd buffer pointer through a struct kfifo, but pass a literal '4' as the byte count to kfifo_in()/kfifo_out(). This is correct on 32-bit (pointer = 4 bytes), but on 64-bit only the low 4 bytes of the 8-byte pointer are written into the FIFO. The reader then reads back 4 bytes into an 8-byte local pointer variable, leaving the upper 4 bytes uninitialized stack data. The first dereference of the reconstructed pointer (fifo_buffer[1]) accesses an arbitrary kernel address and generally results in an oops. Use sizeof(fifo_buffer) so the byte count matches pointer width on every architecture. The driver has no architecture restriction in Kconfig, so any 64-bit build with CONFIG_IEEE802154_CA8210_DEBUGFS=y is exposed. Issue has been latent since the driver was added in 2017 because it is most commonly deployed on 32-bit MCUs. Found via a custom Coccinelle semantic patch hunting for short-byte kfifo I/O on byte-mode kfifos used to shuttle pointers.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.12 ≤ v < 5.10.2614.12 ≤ v < 5.15.2124.12 ≤ v < 6.1.1784.12 ≤ v < 6.12.974.12 ≤ v < 6.18.404.12 ≤ v < 6.6.1454.12 ≤ v < 7.1.54.12 ≤ v < 7.24.12ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242
Vendor states this is fixed in 093aacb0c56d5c693e3169a0224062e77c3fd0c0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1fe2643d0b24ca3cdd61a31a45c2d3233dc6cbfe (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2059c28bd725beded01277cdf1f67be33e714323 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2c1664ccfae653979b38788211240b5a1ee317ed (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 65dc342274a01616f5c17105f7360a3b4bfd7a3d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6d7f7bcf225b2d566176bf6229dbd1252940cb3c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 87dab14a4f68895d6f4d798e6ee3556cd64e8c72 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d8ce67fa6a5e6929f5414e933ff9665176c2bce6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.261 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.212 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.178 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.97 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.145 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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